Captions (app)
| Company type | Private company |
|---|---|
| Industry | Artificial intelligence |
| Founded | 2021 |
| Founders |
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| Headquarters | New York City, United States |
| Website | captions |
Captions is a video-editing app for iOS, Android, Web and desktop. It offers a suite of artificial intelligence tools aimed at streamlining the creation of narrated videos in which social media content creators directly interact with an audience through the camera.
Captions automates common production tasks including captioning, editing, dubbing, script creation, and music integration.[1][2]
The company was recognized as part of Fast Company's "Next Big Things In Tech" series.[3]
History[edit]
Captions was co-founded by Gaurav Misra and Dwight Churchill. During Misra's time leading design engineering at Snap Inc., he followed the rise of a new category of video, the "talking video." In 2021, Misra left Snap to found Captions with his former colleague Churchill.[1]
Captions announced in June 2023 that it had raised $25 million in a Series B. The round was led by Silicon Valley venture capital firm Kleiner Perkins, with participation from Andreessen Horowitz, Sequoia Capital, and SV Angel.[4] The funding round valued the startup at $250 million and brought the company's total capital raised to $40 million. The company additionally released Lipdub, an Al dubbing app which translates any video with spoken audio into 28 languages.[5][6]
Reception[edit]
The company reported that more than five million users have used its iOS and web products between its launch in December 2022 and October 2023.[citation needed] In October 2023, Captions shared that it maintained over 100,000 daily active users with "about a million" videos being created monthly.[1][5]
References[edit]
- ^ a b c Shrivastava, Rashi. "Video Editing App Captions Just Raised $25 Million To Bring AI To Creators". Forbes. Retrieved March 9, 2024.
- ^ Caplan, Jeremy. "This app makes it easy to narrate and caption your videos". FastCompany. Retrieved March 9, 2024.
- ^ Newman, Jared. "The 4 next big things in apps for 2023". FastCompany. Retrieved March 9, 2024.
- ^ Franzen, Carl (June 22, 2023). "AI video creation app Captions bags $25M from top VCs". VentureBeat. Retrieved March 9, 2024.
- ^ a b Franzen, Carl (October 10, 2023). "Video startup Captions launches new AI dubbing app Lipdub with Gen Z slang". VentureBeat. Retrieved March 9, 2024.
- ^ Florian, Amanda (February 9, 2024). "When A.I. Bridged a Language Gap, They Fell in Love". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved March 9, 2024.